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cobbler

cobbler

29 4.0
A baked fruit dessert with a thick biscuit topping and no bottom crust
  • noun
  • /ˈkɑːblər/
  • US
translation icon : pastel de frutas
  • Beatrice brought a dish of her cobbler to the picnic, and everyone loved it.
  • peach cobbler

We have my mom's a BlackBerry cobbler, which is so good.

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Examples

  • I am hoping for some cobbler with some ice cream and caramel sauce.

  • Just then, Mom brought us bowls of warm peach cobbler topped with vanilla ice cream.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • I had just finished my fruit cobbler, right, and...

    Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

  • I want you to try this cherry cobbler.

    Starman (1984)

  • How about some peach cobbler, everybody?

    A Guy Thing (2003)

  • I have a peach cobbler for dessert.

    Last Flag Flying (2017)

  • Finally, we end up walking to Chuck's Diner around nine o'clock for coffee and peach cobbler.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Remember Grandma's blackberry cobbler smothered with heavy whipping cream?

    Academic text (1994)

  • After dinner, we enjoyed a warm serving of cherry cobbler topped with whipped cream.

  • I couldn't wait to have a slice of the homemade blueberry cobbler for dessert.

How Covered

pie
696 1.0
cobbler
  • US
29 4.0
tart
93 1.6

Surface Forms

cobbler singular
cobblers plural

Morphology

cobbler = cobble (opaque) = cobble + er

Although the form suggests 'cobble' + '-er', the dessert meaning (fruit with biscuit-like topping) is not derivable by standard rules and the historical naming is uncertain.

Etymology

Cobbler for the fruit dessert probably got its name because the soft topping looks like cobblestones or 'lumps' on the fruit. That's why this baked sweet is called a cobbler.